Nice to know you

December 31st,2009    by Diego

Buddah says five hundred years of looking back will only have one pass-by in return.So my meeting you in this life must be the result of thousands of looking back in my previous life.
I don't know whether we were destined in our previous lives, but I only want to tell you that it's really nice to have met you and be your life-long soulmate.
Because of you, my ordinary life becomes more meaningful; Because of you, memories will be more beautiful in the passing of years. Time and distance will not change the distance between our hearts, I can still feel your presence and breath all the time.
We repeat the monotonous life, listening intently to each other's heart-felt murmurs, staring at you from far away, trying to understanding you more. The pass years drew the curtain before me, and I see you running wild in the fields wearing devil's red dance shoes. I hear the screaming of the dancer's soul, lonely cry, which wet my embroidered pillow.
I try to light your hope with my pale words. I open the window to my heart, so you can sow your dream in my fertile heart. I no longer feel myself a longly goose since I met you. I know there is another goose listening to my heart story in foreign land far away, feeling my beautiful life.
We light a bonfire with language, comforting each other over mountains and seas, warming up each other's heart. I'll certainly be stronger and more courageous with you looking at me along the way in my life.
In this indifferent world, where people become more and more estranged, it's really nice feeling to be that someone you miss and worry about. If fate has it that you'll have to wander for a long time, then let me plant happiness and sunshine along your way.
Life's like a song, after meeting you I started to guard that privity, secretly keeping that special feeling deep in my heart. The caring will grow like mist in the moonlight, so when I look back, it does not matter what has happened, I will always be a happy soul.
Hold my hand lightly, from now on your world will no longer be lonely. We met in late fall sunshine, looking for the beautiful legend. I do not expect eternity, so I just want to say it's so nice to have met you.
Sunshine pouring on the road, my heart will always enjoy the happiness.

All I do is pay

December 25th,2009    by Diego

"My family is just like a nation," Mr. Brown told his colleague. "My wife is the minister of finance, my mother-in-law is the minister of war, and my daughter is foreign secretary."
"Sounds interesting, " his colleague replied. "And what is your position?"
"I’m the people. All I do is pay."

Love and Time

December 18th,2009    by Diego

Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all of the others, including Love. One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so all constructed boats and left. Except for Love.

Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to hold out until the last possible moment.

When the island had almost sunk, Love decided to ask for help.

Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat. Love said,

"Richness, can you take me with you?"

Richness answered, "No, I can't. There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place here for you."

Love decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by in a beautiful vessel. "Vanity, please help me!"

"I can't help you, Love. You are all wet and might damage my boat," Vanity answered.

Sadness was close by so Love asked, "Sadness, let me go with you."

"Oh... Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself!"

Happiness passed by Love, too, but she was so happy that she did not even hear when Love called her.

Suddenly, there was a voice, "Come, Love, I will take you." It was an elder. So blessed and overjoyed, Love even forgot to ask the elder where they were going. When they arrived at dry land, the elder went her own way. Realizing how much was owed the elder,

Love asked Knowledge, another elder, "Who Helped me?"

"It was Time," Knowledge answered.

"Time?" asked Love. "But why did Time help me?"

Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, "Because only Time is capable of understanding how valuable Love is."

Enthusiam takes you further

December 4th,2009    by Diego

Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urged, "Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience."

How right they were. Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang in there when the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that whispers, "I can do it!" when others shout, "No, you can't."

It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn't let up on her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.

We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder as anyone knows who has ever seen an infant's delight at the jingle of keys or the scurrying of a beetle.

It is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, whatever their age.

At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his stooped shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. Music, for Casals, was an elixir that made life a never ending adventure. As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."

How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe, lies in the word itself. "Enthusiasm" comes from the Greek and means "God within." And what is God within is but an abiding sense of love -- proper love of self (self-acceptance) and, from that, love of others.

Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power. If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a part-time avocation, like the head of state who paints, the nun who runs marathons, the executive who handcrafts furniture.

Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended bouts of depression that had plagued her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, "I am tempted to call Layton a genius." Elizabeth has rediscovered her enthusiasm.

We can't afford to waste tears on "might-have-beens." We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after "what-can-be."

We need to live each moment wholeheartedly, with all our senses -- finding pleasure in the fragrance of a back-yard garden, the crayoned picture of a six-year-old, the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. It is such enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes, a lilt in our steps and smooths the wrinkles from our souls.